Sarah Jane is a good cop. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape...

Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s pulp fiction and...

A clever, thought-provoking thriller. von Sallis, James